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Notice: Asian
Athletics Association's 62nd Council meeting will be held on 9th
March 2007 at Amman (Jordon) during the Asian Cross Country
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Asian
Continental Records as on 31.12.2006
Asian
Games Records as 12.12.2006
Asian Leaders of 2006 (
Senior and Junior)
(Compilation done by: Heinrich
Hubbling) |
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Final Results of
the
15th Asian Games 2006
held at Doha ( Qatar) from
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 Bahrain's
golden girl talks of her Asian Games experience in an interview with
AIDAN PAYNE. (source: gulfdailynews )
BAHRAIN'S golden girl Ruqaya Al Ghasra
is over the moon following her double success at the recently
concluded Asian Games in Doha and termed it a dream come true. The
24-year-old won gold in the 200m and bronze in the 100m and believes
her success will boost women's athletics in the Kingdom. Bahrain
returned with an unprecedented 21 medals - seven gold, 10 silvers
and four bronze - of which 14 came from track and field. "I was
glad to get the 100m heat out of the way and though the Uzbekistan
girl (Guzel Khubbieva) pipped me into second place my main aim was
to qualify for the final," recalled Ruqaya. Going into the final,
Ruqaya said she felt more confident and relaxed despite carrying the
hopes of a nation. Awaiting her in the final was Khubbieva, who has
raced in a number of major finals, and Susanthika Jayasinghe
Mannalage of Sri Lanka, a 200m bronze medallist at the Sydney
Olympics. "I was up against two fine athletes and though I could
only manage a bronze it was an emotional moment for me." Going into
the 200 metres was much easier as Ruqaya and her Algerian coach
Tadjine Noureddine had a chance to analyse the 100 metres race and
change tactics. "I feel the 200 metres is a better event for me as
it gives me a little more time to recover from a mistake," said
Ruqaya. "After finishing with the fastest time in the heats, my
confidence was really high and I knew this was my big chance to win
a gold," added Ruqaya.
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South Korean city Daegu officially
submitted its Bid File to the IAAF in marking the start of
campaigning to host the 13th World Athletics Championships in 2011.
The bid file outlines Daegu’s plans to provide a legacy for Asian
athletics through a successful bid and to make the Championships the
cleanest, most environmentally friendly and most athlete-friendly
competition ever.
The mayor of Daegu city Kim Bum-il said, “The bid enjoys strong
support from the central government and over 92 per cent of all
Daegu citizens have expressed their overwhelming support for bid.”
The centrepiece of the Championships would be the World Cup Stadium
on the outskirts of the city, which was used to host four matches
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 Li
set new Asian Record in High hurdles- Day six of AG
Doha, Dec 13,2006 - China’s
Olympic champion and World record holder Liu Xiang capped an
impressive year with a run-away victory in the men’s 110m Hurdles
with a new Asian Games record timing of 13.15s in the sixth and
final day of athletics action in the Khalifa Stadium at the 15th
Asian Games on Tuesday (Dec 12).
In other athletics events, Kenyan-born James Kwalia Kurui won the
men's 5,000 metres for host Qatar in 13:38.90 to top an all-Gulf
state podium. Mucheru Salem Jawher of Bahrain, also originally from
Kenya, took silver and Burundi-born Sultan Khamis Zaman of Qatar had
bronze.
Thailand was a surprise winner in the men's 4x100-metre relay, while
China won the women's race and Bahrain’s Maryam Yusuf Jamal
completed a memorable middle distance double after winning the
women’s 1500m.
 India
won their first gold of the athletics with a surprise win over the
Chinese in the women’s 4x400m. But there was little surprise in the
men’s 4x400m as Saudi Arabia’s Asian Games 400m champion Hamdan Odha
Al-Bishi anchored his team to gold. The 25-year-old had been unlucky
not to have come away with three medals having taken fourth place in
the men’s 200m.
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Games- Day five
Doha, 12 Dec 2006: Kazakhstan’s Asian record holder (8725) Dmitriy
Karpov, who had taken the silver medal four years ago and has since
won bronze medals at the 2003 Worlds and the 2004 Olympics was the
outstanding favourite in the men’s Decathlon, and his victory was
never in doubt as he collected 8384 points.
Karpov took wins in the first three events - 100m, Long Jump, and
Shot Put - to race 346 points ahead of his closest challenger P.J.
Vinod of India. At the end, he won seven of his ten events over the
two days and ended up 615 points ahead of Uzbekistan’s silver
medallist Vitaliy Smirov, and South Korea’s Kim Kun-Woo who took
bronze.
Patience pays dividends for Fei
in women’s 5000m
China’s Xue Fei maybe only 17, but the manner in which she toyed
with the best of Asia here she might have been running at the top
level for many years.
Bahrain’s Nadia Ejjafini, formerly of Morocco,
did the front running for more than eleven laps, and as the
26-year-old gradually upped the tempo of the race, the starting
field of ten runners capitulated one by one with only six runners in
the hunt at the end of the fifth lap. Japan’s Kayo Sugihara tried to
share some of the leading responsibility with Ejjafini and their
effort increased the pace some more and reduced the chasing pack
down to three runners with Xue, India’s Jaisha Orchatteri, and her
compatriot Preeja Sreedharan remaining in the hunt.
Sreedharan was the first to drop off with two laps
of the race to go as the runners set themselves up for grand finish.
With Ejjafini still leading, her opponents showed a lack of ambition
to steal an early victory. Orchatteri was the first to kick at the
bell, but Sugahara and Xue both closed in quickly to make the race a
three-way battle to the finish. But both Sugahara and Orchatteri had
little answer when Xue kicked with 50m to go. The 17-year-old turned
back to check whether she had done enough to take victory and raced
across the finish line in 15:40.12
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More gold for China and Japan -Asian
Games Day Four
Doha, Dec 10,2006: As expected, the domination of the Chinese and
Japanese in these championships continued on day four as the two
nations won five of the ten gold medals on offer.
Liu Jing and Huang Xiaoxiao completed the hurdles double for China
when they respectively won the women’s 100m Hurdles (12.93 – the
only athlete under 13sec) and 400m Hurdles (55.41).
Pre-event favourite Daichi Sawano of Japan, second in the IAAF World
Cup in Athens this year, took the men’s Pole Vault after clearing
5.60m on his first attempt.
Kumiko Ikeda, who has won the 2006 Osaka IAAF Grand Prix meet in a
national record setting 6.86m, took the women’s Long Jump with
6.81m. She defeated the 2003 World Championship bronze medallist
Anju Bobby George of India (6.52m), and Kazkhstan’s Asian Games
Heptathlon champion Olga Rypakova (6.49m).
Japan’s Kenji Narisako also justified his pre-Games favourite tag by
taking victory in the men’s 400m Hurdles in 48.78. China’s Yan Meng
was the nearest to him with a 49.26 run.
Iran’s Ehsan Hadadi, the Asian record holder (65.25m) and 2005
continental champion recorded a season’s best of 63.79m to take
victory in the men’s Discus Throw, while Kazakhstan’s Olga
Tereshkova continued an impressive championship for her country when
taking the women’s 400m (51.86 sec).
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 Jamal
on course for double, while track debutant takes 10,000m title -
Asian Games, Day Three
Saturday 9 December 2006
Doha, Qatar- Bahraini Maryam Yusuf Jamal completed the first leg of
a possible middle distance running double with victory in the
women’s 800m on the third day’s action of Athletics at the 15th
Asian Games on Saturday (9).
The surprise of the day was reserved for the women’s 100m where Sri
Lanka’s defending Games champion Susanthika Jayasinghe lost to
Uzbekistan’s Guzel Khubbieva. Elsewhere on the busy programme
China’s Zhou Chunxiu was a comfortable winner of the women’s
marathon. There was disaster for World Junior champion Huang
Haiqiang in the men’s High Jump, while the track running debut of
Hasan Mahboob gifted Bahrain its third athletics gold medal of the
Games thanks to an impressive finishing kick.
There was a mini surprise in the women’s Javelin Throw with
Thailand’s Buoban Pamang, 19, the triple SEA Games victor, throwing
a massive personal best of 61.31m for the gold ahead of China’s Ning
Ma, who was ninth at this year’s World Cup, and has a personal best
of 62.38m (2003). Pamang’s winning throw was a national record
improving her previous mark of 56.68m from earlier this year in
Bangkok.
 Khubbieva
shocks Jayasinghe
Uzbekistan’s Guzel Khubbieva, 30, claimed the first major scalp of
the Athletics at these Games when she beat Sri Lanka’s Susanthika
Jayasinghe.
Khubbieva, who was sixth over 200m and seventh at 100m at this
year’s World Cup, complimented a rasping start with a magnificent
finish to take the women’s 100m victory in her new season’s best of
11..27, only one-hundredth of a second under her own lifetime best.
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 Zhang
throws Asian Hammer Record - Asian Games, Day Two
Friday 8 December 2006
Doha, Qatar - Zhang Wenxiu’s spectacular Asian women's Hammer Throw
victory was the highlight of the second day’s action of Athletics at
the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, on Friday (8), during which
four gold medals were decided – men’s & women’s Hammer Throws, men’s
3000m Steeplechase, and women’s 10,000m.
Tareq takes 3000m Steeplechase
The form and talent of Bahrain's Tareq Mubarak Salem, also known as
Tareq Mubarak Taher, lived up to expectations with a well taken
victory in
the men’s 3000m Steeplechase. The Games spirit might have been
dampened by the withdrawal of two-time World champion Saif Saaeed
Shaheen, the World record holder, but China’s Lin Xiangqian ensured
that the remaining medal contenders would endure nervy moments. The
19-year-old Chinese runner (8:29.78 PB – 2006) stormed into a
commanding lead in the first lap and looked comfortable throughout
the race, although he only ended up doing the unofficial pace-making
job for the event’s better known runners. With Xiangqian tiring, the
Bahraini overtook the Chinese runner with 300m to go to win the race
in 8:26.85, ahead of Qatar’s Gamal Belal Salem (8:29.10).
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Chinese sweep Race Walk titles - Asian
Games, Day One
Thursday 7 Decembe r
2006, Doha, Qatar- Chinese athletes Yucheng Han and Hong Liu
respectively took the men’s and women’s 20km Race Walk titles as the
Athletics competition of the 15th Asian Games got underway on Dec 7.
In the men’s race, China’s 2003 Asian champion Yucheng
Han, the fifth fastest walker in the world at all time over 50km,
underlined his dominance at continental level at the shorter
distance with a well taken 20km victory in Doha
Unlike her compatriot Han, women’s race winner Hong Liu, the
2006 World junior champion for the 10,000m Race Walk, had the
company of Kazakhstan’s Svetlana Tolstaya for much of the opening
exchanges, but when she did get away at the halfway point, her
opponent had little to offer by way of an answer.
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Beijing, Oct 16,2006: Kenichi Kita of
Japan won the Asian Marathon Championships 2006 men's title with a
timing of 2:15:37 while Kim Kum Ok of South Korea took women's title
with 2:35:16 at the Beijing International Marathon on Oct 15.
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Athens, Sept17,2006:Asian men’s team set best ever performance in
the IAAF World Cup when they finished on the 4th place with 110
points. Asian men have never gone up from 7th place in the past
editions but this time their performance is clear indication of the
rise of Asian Athletics on the Global arena. On the other side Women
team finished on the 7th place with 85.5 points.
Shaheen Saif Saaeed, representing Asia completed his double by
winning 3000m Steeplechase with a new world cup record of
8:19.09sec. It wasn’t easy for Shaheen to win the race as he was
closely followed by Kenyan Koech Paul Kipsiele who clocked 8:19.37s
to finish on the second place. Tahri Bouabdllah of France took third
with 8:29.06s.
World Athletics final champion Jamal Maryam Yusuf of Baharin gave
second gold of the day for Asia when she won 1500m final with a new
world cup record of 4:00.84sec although it was way below her
personal best of 3:56.18s . Jamal is based in Switzerland for
training and trained by her husband for the past 4 years is showing
good improvements in 2006 with an aim to win triple gold medal in
the forthcoming Asian games in Doha. Tomashova Tatyana of Russia and
Jamieson Sarah of Oceania team finished on the second and third
place with 4:02.45s and 4:02.82s respectively.
Another Bahrin athlete Kamel Yousself Saad won the men’s 800m final
with a style. He raised hand well before the finish line but sudden
surge of trailing runners made him to push more till finish and he
clocked 1:44.98s to beat Soma Bram of Europe team who timed 1:45.13s
while Mulaudzi Mbulaeni of Africa came third in 1:145.14s.
In the most high profile race of the World Cup, World and Olympic
Champions and World Record holder Li Xiang of China got beaten by
his hurdling idol and veteran Allan Johnson in the 110m hurdles
final. Hefty starting call by starter cost Li his rhythm and speed
and failed to recover till the end and finished on the second place
with 13.03s. Allan clocked 12.96s to win the event and Cuban
youngster who earned Li’s praise for his splendid 13.06s finished on
3rd place.
Ehsan
Hadadi of Iran got jubilant when he took second place in the men’s
Discus throw with a season best distance of 62.60m. Ehsan now eying
on the 67meter plus effort in the coming Asian Games. World Champion
Alenka Virgilijus of Lithuania register the big throw of 67.19m to
finish the season with a high note. Lan Wlatz of USA took third
place with 62.12m.
Kayoko Fukushi of Japan won the third place in the women’s 5000m
with 15:06.69s while Marina Aitova of Kazakhstan sailed over 1.94m
to share the third place with Amy Acuff in the Women High Jump
Final.
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10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics, Athens- Day one
Athens, September 16, 2006: Olympic champion Koji Murofushi added
another World title within a week’s time when his threw hammer to
the distance of 82.01m. in the 3rd attempt of the 10th IAAF World
Cup in Athletics final, the same stadium where he had won his first
Olympic title in 2004. He felt short of a meter to improve on his
stadium record of 82.91m set in 2004 but it was enough to log his
season best throw. Asian now takes an early lead in the World Cup
points tally with Gold from Koji.
 Saif
Saaeed Shaheen of Qatar gave second gold medal of the day for Asia
when he won comfortably men’s 5000m with 13:35.30s. There was no
match for Shaheen in the entire race although Kenyan Mike Kipruto
Kigen put efforts to overtake Shaheen in the last 400m but in vein.
Mike settled on second place with 13:36.19s while Tegenkamp Matthew
of USA took third place with 13:36.83s.
Mohamed Salman Al Khuwalidi of Saudi Arabia and Song Aimin of China
earned Bronze medals for Asia in the Men’s Long Jump and Women’s
Discus Throw respectively.
Al Khuwalidi jumped to 8.11m in his very first attempt but it
brought some pain in his thigh after landing and could not put his
best efforts in the following attempts. Irving Saladino of Americas
won the title with 8.26m and silver went to Andrew Howe of Italy who
beat Al Khuwalidi by just 1 cm.
In the women’s Discus throw, Song Aimin of China faced early
difficulties with the ring while throwing; resulting into wasting of
first two attempts which measured 42.96m and 57.39m but in the third
attempt she hurled the discus to 61.47m before fouling the last
throw. Veteran Franka Dietzsch of Germany won the precious 9 points
for Europe with a throw of 66.07m and Aretha Thurmon of USA won
silver medal with 61.83m.
In the last event of the day, Asian relay team consisting of
Japanese runners N. Tsukahara, S. Suetsugu, S. Takahira and S.
Kojima won the bronze medal with a timing of 38.51s, New National
record for Japan and 7 valuable points for Asia. USA team won the
race with Championship record in 37.59s leaving Europe team (38.45s)
to second place.
Asia is on the seventh place with 42 points in Women category while
encouraging sixth in the men’s category with 44 points after the end
of first day events of the 10th IAAF World Cup in Athletics.
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 Athens,
September 15,2006: Asian athletes are all set to register best ever
performance in the 10th edition of the IAAF World Cup in Athletics
scheduled to commence from tomorrow at the Athens Olympic Stadium.
World record holder in high hurdles, Liu Xiang of China will lead
the Asian challange alongwith Koji Murofushi of Japan in Hammer
throw, Saif Saaeed Shaheen in 3000m steeplechase, Salman Mohammed Al
Kuwailidi of KSA in Men's Long jump and World athletics final 2006
winner Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Baharin in 1500m. Liu who failed to
finish race in last World cup in Madrid, is eager to run on his
favorite track where he was crowned Olympic champion in 2004. IAAF
track and field World athletic series 2006 will come to an end with
this World Cup. More than 2.9 million dollars in cash is up for grab
as a awards. For more details visit
World cup site
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10th South Asian Games, Colombo
August 28,2006: Five New games records were created during the 10th
South Asian Games- Athletics events at Colombo from Aug 23-27.
India's ace jumper Anju George set the new record in women long jump
with a distance of 6.42m which was way below her personal best of
6.83m. Host Athlete S.D Chaminda Sampath jumped to 16.26m to create
New SAG Record in men's triple jump while Preeja Sreedharan of India
clocked 34:27.13s in women 10000m run to set New SAG Record. Nepal
athlete Rajendra Bhandari erased India's Bahadur Prasad long
standing record in men's 5000m with a timing of 14:01.19s. Muhammad
Ayub of Pakistan soared to 4.81m in the men's pole vault to set new
record.
Star Athlete Susanthika Jayasinghe was in full form in front
of home crowd and why not she had worked hard to recover her lost
form after series of injuries since Busan Asian Games. Susanthika
won 100m, 200m and 4x100m Gold with good timings in short sprints.
Sydney Olympic Silver medalist clocked 11.33s to win 100m while
Jayasinghe won her pet event 200m with 22.99s signaling her timely
arrival of form before Asian Games in Doha this December.
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August 23,2006: Asian Athletics
Association has selected Asian Team for the forthcoming IAAF World
Cup in Athens on September 16-17,2006. Following are the team
members:-
Men: Yang Yaozu (Chn-100m),
Shingo Suetsugu (Jpn-200m), Rohan Pradeep Kumara (Sri-400m), Kamel
Yousef (Brn-800m), Rashid Ramzi (Brn-1500m), Taher Tareq
(Brn-3000m), Saif Saaeed Shaheen (Brn-5000m), Liu Xiang (Chn-110m
hurdles), Yevgeniy Melshenko (Kaz-400m hurdles), Saif Saaeed Shaheen
(3000m steeplechase), Huang Haiqiang (Chn-high jump); Daichi Sawano
(Jpn-pole vault), Salman Mohammed Al Kuwailidi (KSA-long jump), Li
Yanxi (Chn-triple jump), Navpreet Singh (Ind-shot put), Ehsan Hadadi
(Iri-discus), Koji Murofushi (Jpn-hammer), Chen Qi (Chn-javelin);
Suetsugu, Naoki Tsukahara, Shinji Takahira, Sigeyuki Kojima, Yasuke
Omae and Shin Sugwara (Jpn-4x100m); Rohan Pradeep Kumara and
Prasanna Amarasekara (Sri), Yuzo Kanemaru (Jpn), Hamed Hamdan
Al-Bishi and Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)-4x400m.
Women: Guzel Khubbieva
(Uzb-100m, 200m), Manjeet Kaur (Ind-400m), Pinki Paramanik
(Ind-800m), Maryam Yusuf Jamal (Brn-1500m, 3000m), Kayoko Fukushi
(Jpn-5000m), Feng Yun (Chn-100m hurdles), Huang Xiaoxiao (Chn-400m
hurdles), Miyori Hayakari (Jpn-3000m steeplechase); Marina Aitova
(Kaz-high jump), Gao Shuying (Chn-pole vault), Olga Rypakova (
UZB-Long Jump) Anastasiya Juravyaleva (Uzb-triple jump), Li Ling
(Chn-shot put), Song Aimin (Chn-discus), Zhang Weixiu (Chn-hammer),
Ma Ning (Chn-javelin); S. Khwapeag, Ornaut Klomdee, J. Tawoncharoen,
Nongnuch Sanrat, S. Jaksunin and Sujirat Sukka (Tha-4x100m); Manjeet
Kaur, S. Geetha, Pinki Paramanik and Chitra Soman (Ind), Asami Tanno
(Jpn) and Olga Tershekova (Kaz)-4x400m. |
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August 23,2006: Bejing edition
of World Junior Athletics Championship has produced 16 leading Asian
Junior marks and one Asian Junior Record in Girls 4x400m relay by
Chinese National Team with a timing of 3:32.59s. Host China finished
on the runners up position with 17 medals in total in the
championship. Click
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IAAF World
Junior Athletics Championship 2006, Beijing
August 18,2006: Asian Powerhouse and Host China closely following
leader Kenya in the Medal tally of the IAAF World Junior Athletics
Championships with a tally of 5 medals. So far four Asian Countries
succeed to score medals in the championships. India's medal hope
Saurabh Vij moved into finals of the Shot Put event with a throw of
19.27m along with
Guo Yanxiang of China and
Mohammad Mashari of Kuwait.
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The Chinese Athletics Federation
announced a team of 79 athletes to compete in the IAAF World Junior
Championships which will take place in Beijing from 15-20 August.
Among the 39 male and 40 female athletes all five of the country’s
World Youth gold medalists from last year are present.
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5th August, 2006: Asian Juniors
performances scale up at the right time when World Junior Athletics
Championship to commence in 10 days at Bejing, China.
Click here to view current Asian 2006
Junior Leaders .
In the senior section athletes from Bahrain and Qatar, host of Asian
Games 2006 logged impressive performances to lead the Asian Outdoor
Ranking as on 1st August 2006.
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 2nd
August 2006: The Japanese team for the 11th IAAF World Junior
Championships in Beijing, China was announced on 31 July.
The team which consists of 24 men and 16 women was selected
based on the performances at the national championships,
national junior championships, and the Asian junior championships.
Four Asian junior champions were selected to run in Beijing.
They are Masato Yokota, Akane Ohta, Nami Matsuda and Nao Okabe.
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 Monaco,
2nd Aug 2006: IAAF, today ratified the World Record Breaking
Performance of Liu Xiang of China in 110m Hurdles with a timing of
12.88s, the performance achieved in Lausanne ( Switzerland) on July
12,2006.
The Commemorative Plaque will be handed over officially to Liu
during the IAAF Dinner in Bejing , later this month, as per
information received from IAAF today.
IAAF President Mr. Lamine Diack and IAAF General Director Pierre
Weiss will personally hand over the plaque to Liu.
Asian Athletics Association congratulate Liu on his World Record
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Wednesday 26 July 2006: The Malaysian
Amateur Athletics Union (MAAU) will send four athletes to the IAAF
World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, 15-20 August.
According to the MAAU Coaching and Development chairman, Karim
Ibrahim, the four who have qualified for the meet are Saiful Anuar
(400m Hurdles), Rizam Shah (100m, 110m Hurdles), Amran Raj (400m)
and Lee Hup Wei (High Jump).
The four athletes will be guided by coaches J.V. Jayan and Mahmud
Deraman while Francis Shim has been appointed as the manager.
Hup Wei who has a personal best of 2.20m, which he set during the
Negeri Sembilan Open last year, is among six athletes in the
AsiaComm elite programme and had been training and competing in
Europe while Amran was a member of the SEA Games squad to the Manila
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Macau, 18 July: China once again
dominated the Asian Junior Athletics Championship collecting 39
medals in total out of 129 at stake while Japan finished on the
second place with 25 medals while Qatar and Saudi Arabia score 7
medals each but Qatar had edge over Saudi Arabia by winning 3 Gold
Medal. China won as many5 gold medals on the last day of the
Championship thus underlined their strong dominance in Asian
Athletics. This Championship made many athletes to attain qualifying
mark for the forthcoming World Junior Athletics Championship in
China next month, attracting 500 athletes from 36 Nations while 19
Nations figured out in the medal tally. Host Macau Athletics
Association and Sports Development Board of Macau made every efforts
to make this year's Championship as the most memorial for athletes
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 Macau,
18 July: Xuejin Bai of China won the men's 10000m walk in 43:48.91s
beating Japanese duo Hiroyuki Hirano ( 45:43.66) and Yusuke Suzuki (
47:06.99) on the morning session of last day of the Asian Junior
Athletics Championship.
 In
other final of the morning session Zheng Wang of China added another
Gold to China's Golden run with a win in women's Hammer throw. Zheng
threw 60.16m. Yang Wang, also from China took silver with 59.33m
while Galina Mityaeva earned first medal for Tajikistan when she won
bronze with a throw of 52.55m. Chinese athletes performances are
mostly indicating their preparation for the World Junior next month
at Beijing although China still kept some of their prominent juniors
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 Macau,
17 July: First time in the Asian Athletics History when two athletes
after running 24 laps went on to finish last lap in 10000m with a
suburb sprint till the end and guess what they clocked the same time
and photo finish judge had to break their timing in 1000 part of
second to declare winner and title went to Mohammed Abduh Bakhet of
Qatar who clocked 30:25.03s while Saudi Arabia's Al Amri Ali A .S.
had to settle on the second place with the same time 30:25.03s.
Bronze went to Naser Naser Jamal of Qatar (30:33.62s). There were
many close race in the past but never like this specially for the
longer distance events. After the completion of day three events of
the 12th Asian Junior Athletics Championships, China took massive
lead in the medal tally by winning total 28 medals
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15 gold, 9 Silver, 4 Bronze) There were only three events ( out of
12 finals) today where Chinese athletes failed to win any medal.
Japan also gained 2 more gold medals to maintain their no. 2 rank.
Chinese hurdler Hao Huang set new championship record in the men's
high hurdles with 13.90s in the heats while another Chinese athlete
Zhang Yingning equaled the championship record in the women pole
vault clearing a height of 4.20m. She equaled Zhao Yingying's record
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 Macau,
16 July: Svetlana Radzivil of Uzbekistan soared to the height of
1.90m to create the New Championship record in the Women’s High Jump
event on the second day of the 12th Asian Junior
Athletics Championship progressing at the Macau Stadium at Taipa (
Macau). Svetlana recently participated in the Asian GP series at
Bangkok, Bangalore and Pune where she jumped to her personal best at
the Bangalore AGP with a height of 1.89m on 22nd May but
finished on the 6th place but today she not only improved
her personal best but also won the title. “It benefited me (AGP
series) to prepare for this championship but my target is World
Juniors at Beijing next month” she said. Svetlana broke Tatyana
Efimenko’s record of 1.88m set in 1999. Silver went to Yevseyeva
Yekaterina of Kazakhstan clearing 1.88m while Bronze went to
Dusanova Nadiya of Uzbekistan ( 1.84m). |
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 Macau,
16 July: Favorite Nami Matsuda of Japan won the Women 5000m race in
16:10.95s which was below her season best of 15:49.85 clocked in
Kobe but it was enough to set the New Championship Record today.
Nami took charge of the race very early and maintained the command
till the end. Jassim Kareema of Bahrain struggled to keep up the
pace with Nami , finished on the second place with 16:24.28 while
Kim Jong Hyang of PRK run away with bronze in 16:49.86s. Japanese
athletes won 1 Gold 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals on the second day
taking their tally to total 10 medals and secured second rank after
China's 16 medals. |
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 Macau,
16 July: Al AMRI Ali A. S. overcame the challenge from Ali
Thamer Kamal of Qatar to win grueling 3000m steeplechase
final with a timing of 8:42.94s while Ali Thamer could not
match to Amri's sprint at the end settled with silver
clocking 8:43.09s. Another Qatar runner Malek Salem Saeed
took bronze in 8:57.86s. |
 Macau,
16 July: Zhu Hengjun of China won men's Decathlon event with
a total points of 7316. Zhu showed his intentions clearly
yesterday when he timed 100m with 10.87s and later jumped to
7.39m in Long Jump. His dominance was seen on the second day
when he went over hurdles in just 14.50s but he lost few
points in 1500m although he was way ahead from other four
athletes, he remain unchallenged. |
 Macau,
16 July: Alrawahi Mohammed of Oman lived up to the
expectations from crowd raised by his sub 47 timing in the
heats of men 400m when he won the final with 47.40s. Bouazar
Reza of Iran won second place with 47.57s. while Abiko
Mitsuhiro of Japan took bronze in 47.83s |
 Macau,
16 July: Zhu Jingya followed her teammate Li Yu steps to win
Gold in the intensely fought women Javelin throw final where
Zhu hurled the spear to 55.54 to beat another teammate Zhang
Ying by mere 40cm. Zhang logged 55.14m to win silver. Bronze
went to Matsumoto Momoko of Japan with 53.19m |
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 Macau,
July 15: Chinese athletes dominated the first day proceedings of the
12th Asian Junior Athletics Championship winning four gold medals
out of seven at stake while Japan , Qatar, Uzbekistan won one gold
medal each. Li Yu hurled the javelin to 74.93m to claim gold in the
men Javelin throw final while Chen Yu Wen of China Taipei won silver
with 71.29 m. Bronze went to Wang Qingbo of China ( 69.36 m).
Hundreds of children demonstrated the rich culture of Macau island
in the opening ceremony held later in the evening. Macau Athletic
Federation and Macau Sports Development Board won praise of the
Maurice Nicholas, Secretary of AAA for hosting this championship in
the most efficient way. |
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 Yang
Yansheng of China created the new championship record in the men
pole vault clearing a height of 5.30m thus erased
Tatsuhiko Yasukawa record of 5.20m set in 1999. Suzuki Takafumi
(5.20m) of Japan and Nagata Junya
( 5.10m) of Japan won second and third place respectively. |
 Kotlyarova
Alexandra of Uzbekistan won first gold medal for her country when
she leaped to 6.02m to win women Long Jump final. She remained the
only athlete to go over 6m mark today. Silver medal went to Nakano
Hitomi (5.94m) of Japan while Taha Rima became the first athlete to
win medal for Jordon in the championship history. Taha won bronze
medal with a jump of 5.92m |
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 Macau,
July 15,2006: India’s Golden hope dashed when Asian Junior Leader
and favorite Saurbh Vij was outclassed by Chinese Wang Like in the
Shot Put final. Like, struggling in the initial throws found
required rhythm later which helped him to convert his raw power to
heave the 6kg put to 20.17m thus added another Gold for China. On
the other hand Saurabh started well in the qualifying throws with a
throw of 19.62m but failed to add any further distance in the final
throws. He settled on the silver medal.
Wang was anxious before Saurabh’s sixth attempt and even went close
to the ring to check his distance as he was expecting huge throw
from Saurabh. Big boy Mohammad Mashari of Kuwait too gave tough
fight but finished on the third place with19.60m |
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 Macau,
July 15: Wang Yong of China won the first gold medal of the 12th
Asian Junior Athletics Championship when he heaved the 6kg hammer to
71.66m in his fifth attempt in the final of the hammer throw. His
teammate Zhou Heng logged his season best performance of 68.66m to
win silver medal while Iranian Moghadam Mohsen took bronze with a
distance of 66.91m. Earlier championship began with 100m of
Decathlon where Zhu Hengjun of China won the race with 10.87s later
he again went on winning Long jump of Decathlon with a massive jump
of 7.39m. Al Qaree Mohammed J. M. of Saudi Arabia is closely
following Zhu with a total points of 1627. |
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Saurabh Vij to lead Indian
challenge
MACAU, July 14 (PTI) : Promising shot-putter Saurabh Vij will lead
Indian challenge at the 12th Asian Junior Athletics Championship in
Macau which gets underway here on Saturday.
The Indian competitor is favoured to win the shot put with a record
distance as he has been throwing the iron beyond 20m in his recent
attempts. His closest challenger is expected to be Mohammad Mashari
of Kuwait whose personal best is 19.19m.
A total of 500 athletes from 36 countries will participate in the
four-day event which has been a launch pad for many world class
athletes since its inception in 1986.
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Asian Junior Championships -
PREVIEW by Chua Chong Jin
Thursday 13 July 2006 : The 12th Asian Junior Athletics
Championships take place in Macau, from 15 to 18 July, with the
Chinese and Japanese set to dominate.
At the senior level in Asia's athletics, the Chinese in recent years
have proven themselves to be dominant while the likes of Qatar,
Bahrain and Kazakhstan are clearly emerging powers. All this has
been at the expense of the traditional powerhouse Japan to some
extent.
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 Liu
Xiang 12.88 World 110m Hurdles record stunner
Tuesday 11 July 2006 : Lausanne, Switzerland - China's Olympic
champion Liu Xiang broke the men's 110m Hurdles World record with a
time of 12.88 seconds* (wind +1.1 m/s) at tonight's 'Athletissima',
a Super Grand Prix meeting, which is part of the IAAF World
Athletics Tour.
"I never thought I could break the World record. I'm
feeling very tired, very happy and very excited," said Liu Xiang.
"Switzerland is my lucky place. I had already broken the World
junior record in 2002 in Lausanne (13.12).
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NEW DELHI: A 33-member team, along
with six officials, will leave here for Macau on Wednesday for
participation in the Asian junior athletics championships to be held
there from July 15 to 18.
Originally, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) had chosen a
46-member squad but after confirmatory trials here on July 6 and 7
and July 9, triple jumper Vinod Raj Paul, shot putter Kulwinder
Singh, high hurdler K. A. Harish and woman long jumper P. K. Priya
were dropped. read more>>>> |
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